Anything you see online about batteries developing a "memory" that requires them to be discharged fully doesn't apply to NiMH or Lithium batteries. It really didn't apply to NiCd batteries either. It's just one of those urban legends that refuses to go away.

Has anybody had performance issues with the app running in the background? I'm running an App Killer as it is due to sluggish response. Wonder if this will just make that worse...

I find that when it's running, the time/weather takes a second to appear on the screen when I wake up my phone. Other than that, no problem. But my phone has 4 cores and Boinc is only using 2.

It does have trouble keeping the battery charge up (even using a wall or car charger) if I'm actively using other apps at the same time. I may cut Boinc back to 1 core for that reason.

If I know I'm going to be away from a power source for hours, I go into the Boinc app's menu and exit so it's not even idling in the background.DavidSitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Sorry, but I read that in my prev netbook's manual (Acer Aspire One). They definitely recommended full charge/discharge cycle when possible.

Hardware manufacturers may have a vested interest in batteries that die after a certain number of cycles, especially with non-replaceable batteries. I work in an industry where a dead cell in a battery can destroy a quarter billion dollar mission, our typical maximum allowed discharge is 20% (i.e. 80% remaining) and the main cause of early battery failure is discharging too deeply. That killed the last mission I worked on, three months early.

Of course since that cost of failure on the ground is much less (a replacement battery or a replacement device) it may be worth the chance of maintaining battery capacity with a small chance on destroying the battery. Even when reconditioning early (pre-1990s) NiCds on the ground it was discharge at a constant 5 mA until the cell reached 0.4V. Going below that risked damage, and you couldn't do it with multiple cells in series because of the risk of cell reversal.

Not that most smart phones give you much choice. 8 hours off the charger and they are dead anyway. @SETIEric

I'm a eager member of this great family, and I got very happy when I saw you were doing a Android APP. I'm running several Linux servers with the BOINC client and have been looking for some kind of application to be used on the android device, but...
I've been reading 40-50 posts to seek the answer to my question, but I'm still not sure. Hope it's OK to ask you this:

1. Is this new APP a monitor to view ongoing results from your projects? Or, is it a client to run on the mobile phone? I guess that it maybe both, but using the phone for processing data of this kind will it not seriously block the phones other tasks, or what?

2. If it's a client, is it then possible to run it as a monitor only? This is what I am mostly looking for I guess..
If it's partial a monitor or a monitor only, is it then anything like the AndroBOINC APP which work directly with the BOINC clients on your hosts or does it retrieve data from the BOINC account (if possible)

PS! Do anyone of you know what happened with asteroids@home, it hasen't been running since friday, i think it was!?!?

I'm a eager member of this great family, and I got very happy when I saw you were doing a Android APP. I'm running several Linux servers with the BOINC client and have been looking for some kind of application to be used on the android device, but...
I've been reading 40-50 posts to seek the answer to my question, but I'm still not sure. Hope it's OK to ask you this:

1. Is this new APP a monitor to view ongoing results from your projects? Or, is it a client to run on the mobile phone? I guess that it maybe both, but using the phone for processing data of this kind will it not seriously block the phones other tasks, or what?

2. If it's a client, is it then possible to run it as a monitor only? This is what I am mostly looking for I guess..
If it's partial a monitor or a monitor only, is it then anything like the AndroBOINC APP which work directly with the BOINC clients on your hosts or does it retrieve data from the BOINC account (if possible)

Neither, in the world of Boinc, Boinc is the client, you download Boinc from the Google Play app Store (other app Stores are available), then attach to a project, the projects will send apps to crunch their Wu's, as is the case here.

PS! Do anyone of you know what happened with asteroids@home, it hasen't been running since friday, i think it was!?!?

Thanks for your propmt response ;)
And thank you for the info regarding Asteroids...

Allow me to quote myself:

2. If it's a client, is it then possible to run it as a monitor only? This is what I am mostly looking for I guess..

I'm looking for a monitor, not a client to be run on my android.. Got a rack full of computers to do the hard labour ;) According to the samples of BOINC from google store, its a client.. But maybe you all have another way to keep track with the result of your computers hard work.. Maybe you just view the homepage of each projet? Or maybe you just uses the mobile link statistiks (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/userw.php?id=xxxxxxxx)??? It's just that I thought somebody developed a viewer, monitor or some kind of APP to be used on a mobile phone - only to keep track and se your results ;)

I'm currently "playing" with AndroBOINC, but this APP is working directly with the client on the computer.. And when you are using several computers as I am, this setup means a lot of modification and setting up portforwarding, boinc passwords, firewalls etc. And I thought just maybe, there was an APP (to view result etc.) that used the online data from your account at e.g. SETI@HOME..

But maybe, I'm getting it all wrong..
Anyway, thanks for your post! I have some choices now ;)

By the way, Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 + BOINC client - any chance that you know if activating the UFW firewall to listen on 314xx would block an SSH (putty) connection via port 22 ??? I guess I should have added port 22 as well or?

The software to analyze the signals has been updated since 2009 and IIRC some of the old data which was interesting has been resent for a second look.
Feel honored you have been sent potentially real good data!

George, almost any signals received are already tens if not millions of years old, so a short delay of a couple of years will make no difference in us finding the location of ET. In recent years the sensitivity and selectivity of the software used has been altered so older tapes are being re-run to see if there is anything of interest hiding.
The colour of any signal on the display is of little use other than to make a pretty picture. The real science comes when the same sort of signal is observed coming from the same location in the sky over several observations spread over a long time frame (months/years not hours/days).Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

almost any signals received are already tens if not millions of years old

Well, that's a little too much. As far as I understand, the distance that Seti is looking for is 200 to 1,000 light years range. And with radio signals traveling at close to the speed of light, that's the same amount of years.

But in this it won't matter if the data was made in 1999 or 2013.
There's one other fun fact that's been here in the Seti Readme all this time, and that is: Also, there is only a finite amount of sky that can be seen from Arecibo. In the next two years the entire sky as seen from the telescope will be scanned three times. We feel that this will be enough for this project. By the time we've looked at the sky three times, there will be new telescopes, new experiments, and new approaches to SETI. We hope that you will be able to participate in them too!

So, even at this time, with all the Arecibo data, it's all been looked at already. And again. And again. Not just redone with newer, better science applications, but also redone because Arecibo has looked at that swath of the sky already. Jord

Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest that in many ways, you can be considered an alien conspiracy!